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From: "Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <clacke+gmail@lysator.liu.se>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Help with a basic GuixSD installation
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:06:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGv_=BrWCSgxM1oB4AMv+cUJvJZwBTCy6Ae_oHtWs5r7To5yPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvzh2vkb.fsf@gnu.org>

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On 30-Jun-2015 3:08 pm, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Evan Rowley <rowley.evan@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> >   (file-systems (cons (file-system
> >                         (device
> > "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3")
> >                         (title "root")
> >                         (mount-point "/")
> >                         (type "ext4"))
> >                       %base-file-systems))
>
> You should be using something like:
>
>   (file-system
>     (title 'label)
>     (device "ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3")
>     (mount-point "/")
>     (type "ext4"))
>
> It literally means: Mount the block device whose label (in the ext[234]
> sense) is “ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3”.
>
> The root file system is mounted from the initrd, when udev is not
> running; thus /dev/disk/by-id is not available yet, and it’s important
> to use this 'label mechanism instead.

So *that's* what the mysterious (title 'label) means!

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-30 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-29 18:18 Help with a basic GuixSD installation Evan Rowley
2015-06-30  1:55 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-06-30 13:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-30 17:06   ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) [this message]
2015-07-01  2:04     ` Evan Rowley
2015-07-01 14:38       ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-07-01  9:23     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-01 12:46       ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-07-05  8:16       ` Mark H Weaver
2015-07-05 14:34         ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-07-05 22:33         ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-06  1:59           ` Evan Rowley
2015-07-02 14:21     ` Daniel Pimentel

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